Lavender Orpington - 2 Roos or Roo & Hen

[Mowglimommychick]

These were sold to me as a 5 mo old hen and rooster pair about three months ago. So they are about 8 months old now. They did look a little different for a while. One seemed to have thicker legs and one seem to always be more submissive and had small comb and wattle. As they've grown though I'm feeling like these Hackle feathers are looking rooster like on both of them, and not sure what I'm seeing as far as saddle and tail feathers also.

 

[Gray Farms]

Saddle feathers are coming in on both of them. Sorry to say you have two cockerels there.

 

[Cryss]

You're saying these 2 are 8 months old? 32 weeks? Hens usually start laying at approximately 20 weeks. I think you are going to start hearing them crow any minute. My Roopecca was 6 months old when he crowed. I cried, thought he was Repecca not Roopecca. Check out the short video I made of his very first attempt at crowing. Maybe you can see what he looked like too so you can compare. His brother Marvin crowed about 3 weeks earlier. Roopecca was a late bloomer at 24 weeks.

 

[Gray Farms]

You're saying these 2 are 8 months old? 32 weeks? Hens usually start laying at approximately 20 weeks. I think you are going to start hearing them crow any minute. My Roopecca was 6 months old when he crowed. I cried, thought he was Repecca not Roopecca. Check out the short video I made of his very first attempt at crowing. Maybe you can see what he looked like too so you can compare. His brother Marvin crowed about 3 weeks earlier. Roopecca was a late bloomer at 24 weeks.

Not with English Orpingtons, they mature much slower. Mine don't start laying until around 10-12 months old and its not uncommon for cockerels to not start crowing until nearly the same age.

 

[Noreaster Egger]

This is my boy and girl at 5mos. Supposedly they are 75% english.

 

[Gray Farms]

This is my boy and girl at 5mos. Supposedly they are 75% english.

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I'd be surprised if they were 75% English "no offence meant". Mine have never had that much red comb this young and mine are larger at 5 months.

 

[Mowglimommychick]

You're saying these 2 are 8 months old? 32 weeks? Hens usually start laying at approximately 20 weeks. I think you are going to start hearing them crow any minute. My Roopecca was 6 months old when he crowed. I cried, thought he was Repecca not Roopecca. Check out the short video I made of his very first attempt at crowing. Maybe you can see what he looked like too so you can compare. His brother Marvin crowed about 3 weeks earlier. Roopecca was a late bloomer at 24 weeks.

That name - so funny! Actually I just realized they are 7 mos not 8 so more like 28 weeks. But something should be happening soon.

 

[Noreaster Egger]

I'd be surprised if they were 75% English "no offence meant". Mine have never had that much red comb this young and mine are larger at 5 months.

Yeah, no offense taken. I think my hen started laying somewhere in the 8-9 month range. So maybe there's some mix in there, but probably not 75%.

 

[Cryss]

Not with English Orpingtons, they mature much slower. Mine don't start laying until around 10-12 months old and its not uncommon for cockerels to not start crowing until nearly the same age.

I am too much of a newbie to know if my Lavender Orpington roosters are English. (The only English rooster in this New Jersey house that I'm sure of is my husband, born n raised in Dorset England. ) . My 2 Lavender Orpington roosters were brothers, hatched together. Marvin was about 20-21 weeks when he crowed. Roopecca was 24 weeks so compared to his brother he was a late bloomer. So...is my boy an English Orpington? How would I know?

 

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